Mesdames et Messieurs

Après 5 mois de Q&A sur le blogue Piknic avec presque tout le DJs/artistes qui sont venus jouer cette saison, voici une collection des meilleurs/plus étranges/plus drôles réponses que nous avons reçues et partagées avec vous.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

After 5 months of Q&As on the Piknic blog with almost every DJ/artist that came to play this season, here’s a collection of some of the best/strangest/funniest answers we’ve had the pleasure to receive and share with you all.

Profitez!/ Enjoy!

Le déclic qui a tout déclenché pour toi?

How did you get into this?

“Brancher un drum machine dans une pedale de guitare.”

- Synthamesk

“We were forced by Jesse Rose...he is an evil genius.”

- Zombie Disco Squad

“Le piano”

- Noze

“Mon professeur d'histoire m'a prêté “Music Has the Right to Children” de Boards of Canada et autres classiques de la musique électronique dans mes premières années d'école secondaire. Un scénario semblable à School of Rock quand Jack Black donne à ses étudiants des disques de Led Zeppelin, mais avec des disques des étiquettes Warp et Ninja Tune.”

- Hovatron

“I got into this since 2000 in Madrid when I bought my first turntables and after listening to a Ritchie Hawtin live set of 4 hours in front of 4500 people.”

- Stern*

“I was not good enough to become a pro soccer player.”

- Sascha Funke

“Mon pick-up Mickey Moose.”

- Stéphane Latreille

L’ingrédient essentiel pour mettre le feu à la place?

What’s your ideal setup to rock a crowd?

“Une allumette si y a pas trop de vent.”

- Chainsawtooth

“Des beaux garçons, des jolies filles, des «gin tonic», un kick, un bassline bien gras, des hi-hats et toujours «more cowbell»!!”

- FU Ancko

“Un gars qui cri TECHNO dans ta soirée pendant que tu mix…ou…Une montée bien teaser, suivi de mon fameux move de bras, suivi d'une reprise de beat en force!! Le tout dans cette ordre...”

- Mono-poly

“Mat_Moebius”

- Mat_Moebius

“Potato salad and sarcasm.”

- Zombie Disco Squad

“Rocks. Lots of them.”

- Skinnybones

“Bass, bass and more bass!”

- Green Velvet

“Sub-bass stacks the size of double-decker buses!”

- Mary Anne Hobbes

“The basics. 2 turntables, a mixer and a mic. If the crowd is ready and willing, that always helps too.”

- Scott C

“Être soi-meme.”

- F.AN

“Open minds and jazzy toes.”

- Hatchmatik

Ce que tu n’oublies jamais pour un pique nique?

What do you usually bring to a picnic?

“Le Tire-Bouchon et le vin!!!
Note : Accompagné de bons fromages!!!!”

- Kasteniede

“Grapes and sunglasses.”

- Vilify

“Boombox and some long island iced tea.”

- Lexis

“Black cherries.”

- Mary Anne Hobbes

“Des batteries pour mon ghetto-blaster “

- Soundshaper

“Une tapette à ours.”

- Recepteurz

“Un tire bouchon... Parce que si t'oublies le tire bouchon.. t'as l'air d'un c..”

- Maudite Machine

“Une bouteille de vin et l'argent pour me prendre un fameux hot-dog William du Piknic! Menoume!”

- X-Cube

“A herd of bison & some strawberry jam.”

- Elite Force

La première pièce qui t’ait fait perdre la tête?

What’s the first song that made you go crazy?

“Prince - Let's Go Crazy”

- Flosstradamus

“Careful with that Axe, Eugene” by Pink Floyd, but not a good crazy. I was about 2 and being babysat by my very young uncles who got high and played that very loud. I was so scared by that scream in the track... “

- Monsieur Seb

“Parliament 'Flash Light'”

- Green Velvet

“Blackbox – « Everybody, everybody » Découverte de la house cheesy.”

- Lateez

“Shirley Ellis's “Clapping Song””

- Steinski

La pièce qui t’obsède en ce moment?

What’s the last song that made you go crazy?

“Prince - Let's Go Crazy”

- Flosstradamus

“Je peux juste dire que je vais la jouer dimanche.”

- DJ NOYL

“Fruit de la passion de Francky Vincent :)”

- Yankat

“Ramadanman – “Work Them.” J'arrive pas à décider si c'est terriblement stupide ou du pur génie. J'aime croire que toute bonne musique club se trouve entre les deux.”

- Hovatron

“Tout ce que fait Henrik Schwarz.”

- Christian Provonost

“Une pièce de Poet in Disguise (Mutant Clan Cookie Monster remix) de Aeromaschine....et oui vous allez l'entendre dimanche....;-)”

- Bender

La pièce que tu ne joueras jamais?

What song will you never drop?

“N'importe quelle toune de la discographie de David Guetta.”

- DJ NOYL

“A Celine Dion track or whatever track remixed by Guetta.”

- Stern*

“Tout de Guetta ou Celine Dion.”

- DJ Endless

“Don't break my heart / my achy-breaky heart or anything by Right said Fred.”

- Intoccabile

“Vous me demandez de piger une track dans la plus grande tracklist de tout les temps?”

- Hakim Guelmi

“Anything by Lady Gaga... people need to get over that shit... seriously... go fucking listen to Grace Jones.”

- Ghostbeard

“Le morceau "Doll's Polyphony" de la trame sonore d'Akira, tiré de la séquence où les jouets attaquent Tetsuo dans sa chambre d'isolement.”

- Dorobo

“Anything Country.”

- Terrence Kissner

La demande la plus étrange qu’on t’ait jamais faite?

Funniest request you’ve ever gotten?

“Same as every other DJ, I guess: "Hay! Do you have that track that goes imitates a 4/4 beat...”

- Monsieur Seb

"Can you play more like you were 10 minutes ago?"

- Meek

“I wasn't the one who received this request, but it is by far the best. My friend Rekkid Bitch Mike was spinning a drum'n'bass set for one of our afterhour shows, someone walked up to him and asked him to play "Mortal Kombat."

- Construct

“Hanson or the Vengaboys”

- Living~Stone

“Not really a request but once a guy came at the end of a set and told me "It was really a good set. But you know what? You should wear a tracksuit." Guess what? The dude WAS wearing a tracksuit.”

- Bowly

“As-tu la toune avec un tigre qui danse dans une bulle ? Et moi de répondre: je l'ai joué tantôt!”

- Green

“Somebody once asked me if I had the trance remix of the Inspector Gadget theme song.”

- Scott C

“"Could you play some daft punk??" while playing daft punk.”

- Shuttle

“I found this one record last year in a second-hand vinyl shop that I bought because it's skillfully the worst record I've ever heard. Like what some genius would produce trying to really push the boundaries of bad psychedelic acid music. There's this abrasive drone that comes in part way and you think it's the breakdown, but it just never leaves. That part lasts about 7 minutes. This comes after a section that's mostly sitar.”

- Mike Mind

Ton plus beau souvenir de DJ?

Most memorable DJ experience?

“Last years Piknik Elektronik!!! Best gig ever!”

- Zombie Disco Squad

“Playing UK Funky at a Komodo Dubs (dubstep) show and having the crowd rush the stage.”

- BUS

“Playing in front of 10,000 people at Sonar festival.”

- Roska

“The first time I ever DJ'ed at a party.”

- Steinski

“Jamming with Inuit youths in Nunavik.”

- Nimalan Yoganathan

“J’ai entre autres l’image précise d’un party de loft il y a quelques années où absolument tout le monde était en feu alors qu’on pouvait voir le soleil se lever sur la ville à travers de grandes fenêtre embuées. Je jouais un vieux disque de Ian Pooley sur la table de gauche. Tu sais ce genre de moment où la vie c’est VRAIMENT BEAU!”

- DJ Slap

“Avoir provoquer une émeute à Lyon.”

- Mad Kids

“Hard to say. Been blessed with so many... But, probably 1st gig in Amsterdam in a submarine in 1992 day after new years eve, and then 1st gig outside of USA in Rome. NYE 1991.”

- Josh Wink

“Mon set au Love Parade était surréel... mais je pense que le set de 2006 au Savoy pendant Mutek a été un moment à la fois très touchant et culminant dans ma vie. J'y pense très souvent, c'est un souvenir qui va m'accompagner longtemps.”

- Pheek

“Hard to choose. Planet Turbo tour was very memorable. The night I did with Tiga and Matt Walsh at Zoobizarre was great. Plastique de Reve & Spaceman and the chocolate mushrooms. DJing new year's in Goa years ago was a comic highlight. Actually, I've got it... me and my brother helping my Dad DJ at a hippy reunion in Goa last year.”

- Thomas Von Party

“La fois que j'ai joué dans un festival à Caen qui commémorait le 60ieme anniversaire du débarquement ; dix mille personnes avec les bras dans les airs, c'est quelque chose!’

- Mateo Murphy

Ta pire raclée?

Biggest fail of your career?

“A concert for an anarchist group in the mile end, was so boring....”

- Stern*

“There was this one time when my computer kinda exploded in the middle of a set...”

- Vipond

“Not being beamed up by the mothership every time I play.”

- Skinnybones

“Littéralement: Une fille de la sécurité d'un événement au Connecticut m'a poussée de toutes ses forces et m'a fait revoler par dessus une table, juste parce que je lui ai dit que je la trouvais "rude".”

- Mistress Barbara

“DJ'ing a friends wedding...Canadiens goalie legend Ken Dryden requesting “The Twist” and not having a copy...dude won how many Stanley Cups and Vezina trophies...I can't even play him “The Twist”...bullshit. Note that Ken Dryden is one of the few people I'd ever play a request for. I'm waiting for the day Guy Lafleur requests a track off his disco album...cause I'm armed with that shit... English & French version!”

- Ghostbeard

“I was in a band with Thom Yorke when I was at college. If only I'd have persuaded him to join Elite Force he might have enjoyed a decent career ;)”

- Elite Force

Si je dis Piknic, tu dis...

I say Piknic, you say...

“Pick me.”

- Green Velvet

“hooolllleeeeddddiiiiiiiiidddddddiiiiiiiiii”

- Round Table Knights

“Sputnik”

- Hovatron

“Bass”

- Construct

“Soleil, gazon, house, saucisse william, et corrona froide en bonne compagnie.”

- Le Boucher

“Qu'ça n's'écrit pas comme ça non?”

- Noze

“Pluie pas pluie, j'y suis...”

- Olivier St. Germain

“Ours?”

- Recepteurz

“PAWTEE”

- Shuttle

“Frühstück”

- Sascha Funke

“Tribal tattoos?”

- Mike Mind

“Safari musical! Amenez vos kodaks sensoriels.”

- Pheek

“Ma vie, My Life ! (c :”

- Nicolas Cournoyer